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I’m wondering how the fake lawyer first met up with Johnnie. He says that he always met him outside the office? Does the lawyer just go cruising around looking for naive guys with accents? Who arranged their first meeting? Ruby and Johnnie don’t tell each other their names until they’ve been walking around town for at least half an hour. The old couple at the fancy event... they’re swingers right? Why else would they grab two people half their age to dance with? At the final performance, the guy comes out and drums for LITERALLY TEN SECONDS and two impatient men in the audience loudly ask “where is the violinist?” And “where are the dancers?!”

OK, here goes. I loved the storyline overall. I was so afraid it was going to be pure hokum or so artificial as to be unbelievable. For instance, Singin' in the Rain's meet-cute is entirely coincidental. If Gene hadn't run from his "adoring" fans at that moment and chosen that route to run away and landed in Debbie Reynolds' car then the rest wouldn't have happened. As it is he only was attracted/intrigued because she gave him as much sass as he gave smarm. (One of those "She doesn't want me?!? I'll show her!" deals.) I was afraid that's where SS was heading but was happy to be wrong. I didn't much care for all the troupe interplay and stuff. Tighten it to a "love triangle/4some" for tension instead of just how long it's going to take for everyone to come to their senses. The Abigail/Orville love story was fun the first time but definitely felt tossed in just to quickly (not neatly) resolve that scenario. Also Orville fetching Abigail wouldn't have stopped the show. Not sure what he thought that getting Abigail would accomplish. (He also didn't seem to know anything about his family's influence and friends and such. He could have contacted some of his suppliers in New York and had them help look for Abigail instead of "going all over New York". That was also a lousy shot at her, blaming his trying to find her as the reason his plan might not work.) I did LOVE the stage lights number and dialogue. It was much more organic and I could see it happening in real life. Lots of discussion of the various aspects of acting, the stage, makeup, the excitement, etc. SitR has Kathy stand on a ladder while Gene tells her about all the excitement and such. He turns the fans on to breeze her hair and the fans magically make no sound when he starts to sing. SS had sound in all the right places, ESPECIALLY that wonderful solo dance with the paper and the squeaky board. Wow was that awesome. I understand Moses Supposes wanting to show up the diction coach but a whole dance number just fell a little flat. I was perfectly on board with Make 'Em Laugh being a physical number.because Donald O'Connor was showing how far you had to go sometimes but the result made the effort worth it. The whole actors-on-a-farm thing was not needed. They only had 36 hours for crying out loud before the big barn dance/Historical Society meeting! Judy just expected them to know what was needed for each task and sort-of-laughed at them when they did it wrong. They were doing you a favor by agreeing to your terms (added after the original request which is unfair). Be considerate or they might walk out too. Hers wasn't the only barn in New England. I guess the time frame is what does me in overall on repeat viewings. We went from her being flat broke to the stage folk being completely part of the farm at the time of the dance and the dance was only the next evening from the movie's opening! Everybody took to everything too quickly, on both sides of the divide. Judy really should have given the actors the condition of helping on the farm before offering to let them stay. Gene should have talked to his actors first instead of agreeing. I am glad they addressed that a little with Judy dressing him down for browbeating Abigail. I have more but we've moved on. I did buy this instead of renting it and will definitely watch it again. It's also a fun one to listen to while cleaning at home or listening at work. It's a great pick and I am grateful to Cam Bert for the introduction.

I've been meaning to post general likes and dislikes. I'd better get on that before Summer Stock gets put into winter storage.

This new Christmas song just came out and I'm super into it

First of all, the guys in the jig band seemed fully competent, and we don't know he couldn't fucking shred that fiddle. In a city where everyone is a top-tier artistic talent, why wouldn't we assume that? Alls we know is Ruby says "I think you could smoke that guy," which, fuck you Ruby. Secondly, I rewatched just now and we don't really see where he gets his violin ... he waves the girls on to join in the tabletop clog ballet and then, just ... has it. And the jig band's fiddle player still seen with an instrument, so yeah, I guess he had it with him, just in case he needs to show someone up which, fuck you Kyle. But having played about a jillion bar gigs in my lifetime, I can confirm that certain types of dude (yes, it's always dudes) absolutely will not hesitate to ask bar musicians at a gig if he can commandeer the guitar and play a song or two. And then get quite shitty about it when you say no, we're working, we've got a thing going on here, and no not even during a set break. That dude tends to show up in the same crowd at the guy who requests "Freebird."

I take it you're not looking forward to the sequel, "High Cs", where a bunch of young opera singers cut loose by crashing neighborhood Karaoke bars?

Correction: Just bought and watched it so I have seen it.

I just saw this too and came here to express my joy! Though weirdly, I've been to a live HDTGM ep once before and... same guest. Haha not that I mind! I've also seen her own podcast live a couple times. I'm wondering if we'll have to wait a year until next Christmas season to get it in our feeds tho

I just saw on Facebook who will be the guest for this episode. Without spoiling anything and because I don’t know how to use spoiler tags on these forums, I’ll just say that everyone’s Christmas wish will come true. But I was curious when this episode will drop. The next scheduled episode is the 20th, the night this show will be recorded. Will we get a regular episode on the 20th and then this one on January 3rd? Will they delay the release and drop this the week of Christmas? Will this be a bonus episode? Or a Stitcher Premium exclusive?

My genetic test came back and I'm 5% Neanderthal, which is better than the results I got last year.

Your mom sells suckshells by the cockshore

What rough beast is this slouching toward Batman didn’t kill himself?

https://variety.com/2019/film/news/bret-mckenzie-jim-henson-emmet-otters-jug-band-christmas-flight-of-the-conchords-1203377846/

I have vague enough memories of this as to practically say I have never seen it.

OMISSION: One thing I was surprised was never discussed was the notion that, in spite of the final performance being regarded as terrible by all, the audience in attendance not only disagreed, but managed to collectively and telepathically decide to stay in stunned silence at the end of their performance in an effort to fake out the performers, only to surprise them with thunderous applause. Can you imagine how hard it is for an entire audience to do this spontaneously? There wasn't a single person in the audience who decided to applaud at the end just to be polite.

I'm glad that the audience member pointed out that Kramrovsky the ballet instructor was Belloc from Raiders of the Lost Ark, because while he was going through the "emotionally moved by what he beholds" B-roll footage ... ... I kept waiting, begging, for him to go for it and say:

For those who have seen Ex Machina, we already knew that Jazzy had the moves. (Sonoya Mizuno's career does seem to have outstripped her other young co-stars, as she's in this and Crazy Rich Asians and Annihilation and La La Land. No wonder everyone thought this should have been the Jazzy movie.)

It kind of pissed me off that the school vending machines only provided fat-free options. What kind of fascist bullshit is that? I mean, if it were only a dance school, I could maybe get it, but I’m sure there are, like, ten-year-old French horn players who might appreciate Kit Kat break every now and again - especially after being bawled out by whatever sadistic taskmaster they’ve been saddled with for accidentally releasing their spit valve in the middle of Bizet’s L’Arlesienne Suite No 1. A bag of cheddar flavored kale chips isn’t going to do shit to alleviate that kind of academic stress.

Did anyone else feel like it was wildly inappropriate for both Ruby and Jazzy to be sent to Madam Markova’s office together? Their infractions, such as they were, were completely unrelated. Jazzy was suffering from chronic tardiness due to sexy-fierce, forty-year-old dude fucking, and Ruby wasn’t, what, popping when she should be locking? I get Madam Markova was busy, but damn, it really felt to me like this might be a situation where two separate meetings might have been in order.

So are we gonna talk about how this old violin is magically an electric violin at times?

Paraphrasing Paul from the CHI show: I’m in a show that stars Don Cheadle. Swordfish will not be released while that’s still happening.

My favorite part is after they track the slave-traders through mountains, rainforest, and savannah they see them board ships on a river. Their reaction? "We lost them!"....It's a fucking river!

Hardcore porn producers should tackle historical epics more often. I've seen Lincoln, and it was pretty good, but it really could've used a scene where someone jacks off a horse at a Gettysburg orgy.

Holy crap. This would be incredible. Mantzoukas may spotaneously combust during this,.